Heroes Reborn Service Rules

Admin

Server staff retain the right to kick, ban, or close access to any or all users of Heroes Reborn Services at any time. The rules are constantly being updated, check back often.

Heroes Reborn features a specific rule set to ensure our environment is both fair and balanced. Failure to abide by these rules may result in disciplinary action.

Main Server Rules
Region Abuse

Regions are to be used for protection, malicious creation of regions is illegal.

Including but not limited to:

Preventing access to Deathchests

Trapping offline users

Insulting server players/staff

Abusing game mechanics/block lag to gain access to region-protected areas, etc that are otherwise impossible to enter.

This includes using engineer or other profession skills/mechanics to gain access to region-protected areas.

Allowing players to break the rules despite knowing it's illegal will result in punishments

Exploiting and Game Mechanics
These actions are allowed:

Using Hero skills as they are designed to be used is acceptable. For example, it is legal to use Blink to travel through small holes.

If you find or are shown unintended skill effects that could potentially provide a game advantage, you must report this at the Exploits reporting forum – go tohc.to/exploits

If any unwanted effects of a skill is observed, the skill will be removed or recoded. Otherwise, it is legal to continue using the skill.

These actions are prohibited:

Intentionally abusing glitches or game mechanics.

Block jumping/glitching/lag.

This means using the lag between breaking a protected block and when it re-spawns to move though the space, as well as using a block placed in a protected area to jump on in the moment before it disappears.

Using multiple accounts, also referred to as alt accounts.

All players on Heroes Reborn are allowed one account per person.

Multiboxing is not allowed (a single personal playing more than one account at the same time).

To apply for approval to share an IP, start a conversation with the Admins on the Heroes Reborn Forums, listing the names and reason for sharing an IP. Applications will be reviewed on a case by case basis.

IGNs sharing an IP address without notification will be banned without warning.

Any mod that changes the use of inventory or gameplay or that gives any kind of unfair advantage in PVP or PVE.

Afk macroing

This includes using any macro mod feature, such as Loop, or any external action or modification to your game that enables your character to perform actions (ie using skills, moving, hitting blocks, hitting entities or players) while you are not present at the keyboard.

These are allowed:

All of the mods in the Heroes Reborn Technic modpack

All resource packs (unless blatantly being used to cheat in any fashion)

Mods that enhance the graphics of the game, shaders, bloom, HD textures, etc

Mods that alter the default sounds of Minecraft

Example of approved Mods:

HD Textures/Text

HeroMod

Improved Chat

Inventory Tweaks

Multishot Timelapse Mod

Mumfrey's Macro / Keybind Mod

Oculus Rift Mod

Optifine/Optimine

Rei's Minimap

TabbyChat

Technic Launcher

Too Many Items

Water Shader

World Edit CUI

If you are in any doubt about a mod you wish to use, start a conversation about it with the Adminson the Heroes Reborn Forums.

Player VS Player
Combat

Pvp is legal everywhere except in areas flagged as pvp-off, for example, the spawn castle.I

f you are combat-tagged in any way in a pvp-off area, it is illegal to trick or entice players into hitting you so they become combat-tagged.

However, it is legal to chase and continue to fight a combat-tagged player who runs into a pvp-off area.

Killing friends for exp or any other resource or statistic, aka boosting, is prohibited.

This extends to claiming bounties on members of your town,other towns within your nation, or friends.

Teleporting group members to your person and engaging in hostile actions against said group members after they purchased a teleport through trade chat is prohibited.

Looting

Looting or stealing from chests anywhere is allowed. This includes Noble Plots.

Looting a player's corpse is allowed.

Dumping or burning the contents of chests en masse while raiding is prohibited.

This includes using the /clear command to delete chestloads of raided items.

If you suspect dumping etc, open a petition immediately at the site and avoid using the chests until your petition has been answered.

Homophobic or racist terms and toxicity in public chats (whether intended for public chat or not).

Impersonating any Heroes Reborn Online staff member.

Bashing staff positions

Discussing bans or mutes in public chats.

Hackusations are not allowed in public chats.

If you have proof create a PE, PM a staff member or post a report on the Exploit Reporting sub-forum

Marketing, promoting or advertising anything, or making any other form of solicitation.

This includes other Teamspeak servers, other Minecraft servers, personal vents/mumbles, and other game servers that DH does not directly (or indirectly) sponsor. ''' This is a zero tolerance rule, and will result in an immediate ban.'''

This does not include items sold on Heroes Reborn Online Service that are indigenous to Minecraft or Heroes Reborn.

The use of any language besides English in main chat channels (global, trade, help, off-topic, etc).

This includes various other forms of slang.

Spamming, begging, whining, and other similar forms of unwanted chat clutter.

Encouraging others to violate the rules set by staff.

Posting in a township or guild thread of which you are not a member for anything other than the town or guild business. Using their threads to start arguments or flame members will result in a 1-week forum suspension.

Enforcement
These are general guidelines. Certain steps may be skipped depending on the rule broken or situation
Warnings will be given for any infringement as follows:

Staff does not support Real Money Trading and will not enforce trades exchanging real money for ingame benefits between players.

The sale of town mayorships is not supported and will not be enforced.

Trade District Shops

Trade District shops are to be used as shops only.

Shops are not to be lived in or used as a secondary home.

Shops must only contained '''Chest Shops''' or items pertaining to chest shops

IE. Casinos, Pawn Shops, etc are '''NOT ALLOWED'''

Temporary Chests for storage pertaining to the '''chest shops''' are allowed.

Chests used for storage NOT pertaining to the '''chest shops''' are NOT allowed.

Shops can not have any areas blocked off from the public.

You may not change the exterior walls if any are included in your shop region.

You may change the interior fittings within your region.

However if you are in a shared building, you may not obstruct player access to other floors.

Any shop violations will be corrected on the spot without warning.

Abusing any skills to remove the Rent Shop sign is punishable with a suspension.

Trading in-game currency for Real Money items through the Shop will not be enforced.

Scamming is not permitted.

Staff will not force the purchase but will refund the in-game currency.

Townships and Residences (personal regions)
Residences (personal regions) are subject to the same rules as Townships as per this section.
This section of the Rules does not apply to Noble Plots.Town Names

Townships created with names to troll, slander or give false impressions will be forced to rename their town or will have it renamed for them.

Town Membership

If you decide to leave a town, you must remove yourself from town membership.

If you are kicked from a town, you are entitled to your LWCs. Open a petition at a new location for your LWCs and an Admin will relocate them for you.

Staff will not assist you with moving anything other than LWCs.

Theft by Town Members

Town leaders are responsible for investigating and punishing theft, griefing etc within their town.

Town leaders have access to the Prism plugin for investigating suspected theft etc.

Punishment may include, for example, placing bounties on a thief and naming a thief on a public blacklist.

To clarify, town leaders may petition for server punishment if a player breaks server rules within the town, for example, rules regarding griefing, chest dumping and agreements made in Trade Chat.

Town Construction
If you are concerned whether your township design will comply with the Rules, request Admin consideration and approval.

Exterior walls surrounding a town and town structures must be of a reasonable height

I.E. Not ground to sky limit

No cobble/dirt boxes. Walls/structures must be well designed and thought out.

Walls/structures may not contain large amounts of lava and flowing water, as they cause block update lag without Admin approval.

Towns may have a roof or a glass dome, but the roof/glass dome must conform to the following rules:

Must not be flat (e.g no platform of glass/blocks covering the entire town)

Must be well designed and detailed

Must be stylistically integrated with the rest of the structure with believable building characteristics such as columns, towers, bracing, buttresses.

Townships must have proper supports if they are raised off the ground.

Floating townships must have proper "lore" that explains why the township is floating e.g. airships, 'Laputa' style towns. Note: all townships of this type are subject to Admin approval.

Must not be too high from the ground

Must look like the township is meant to be flying (e.g. propellers, air balloons)

All towns must have a method of getting from the ground to the township.

Noble (spawn) Plots
Spawn plots are not intended to be replacements for townships.Ownership and Transfers

You may only own ONE Noble Plot.

No refunds are issued, final sale.

Ownership may be transferred and plots may be traded. Regular trade rules apply, use trade chat and confirm.

If you wish to move from an occupied plot to a vacant plot, you must first release your current plot by sale, trade or relinquishment, and you must pay the asking price for the vacant plot.

To transfer plot ownership you can use the areashop commands found using "/as" in-game

Activity Requirement

Plots that are empty for too long will be subject to review (no land holding).

If you are inactive for 30 days, your plot ownership may be terminated, the site cleared, and the empty land put up again for sale on a first come, first serve basis.

Security

If you add someone to your Noble Plot region, you are responsible for the safety of your items.

The only exception is if you have added a player to your region to provide services (e.g. engineer, architect services etc.) as confirmed in trade

Build Standards and Use

Plots must be well designed, built well and not an eyesore (no cobble boxes, this is a place to showcase your build skill).

No trees on roofs (tree houses will be allowed within reason, as long as the leaves don't exceed region height).

You may not put shops in your plot. That is what the trade district is for.